Rep. Zach Wamp (R-TN) is supporting legislation that would seriously undermine and damage his state’s Right to Work law. In a letter to Mr. Wamp, Mark Mix requests that Mr. Wamp remove his name from the legislation: “If (the legislation) becomes…
Constitutional scholar Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago has written a book on the Card Check Forced Unionism bill calling the most controversial piece of labor legislation in the last 60 years, the Employee Free Choice Act has “some…
Representing a state with a popular Right to Work law that protects a workers’ right to choose whether to join or support a labor union sometimes makes it tough to pay back your pro forced unionism political backers but in…
Fred Siegal and Dan DiSalvo’s intense look at government unions is in the new issue of the Weekly Standard and it is worth a read. The authors point out that the grand bargain between the taxpayers and public workers…
Lee Wishing’s blood started to boil when he heard President Obama’s speech before the AFL-CIO praising the Card Check Forced Unionism bill and rightfully so: The reason I was angry is that President Obama pulled off a rhetorical sleight of hand.
Forced unionism sycophant Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is predicting passage of the Card Check Forced Unionism bill through the Senate before the end of the year. Brown said he was talking to retiring Republican Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) as a…
Two Kansas state agencies were working on behalf of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to identify potential new union members among the state’s in-home health care workers. The Kansas City Star reports that “the state’s Department of Aging…
The Hill says that Senator Specter worked “for hours” on a deal with pro-forced unionism Senators Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on a deal to get his support for the Card Check Forced Unionism Bill. We wonder whether…
From the Wall Street Journal: The AFL-CIO crowned a new king yesterday at the labor federation’s convention in Pittsburgh. Now some Democrats are rushing to pay the union’s new president, Rich Trumka, tribute by reviving Big Labor’s top legislative…